The Bloodstrings – Aachen, Germany I’ve missed more than one release this year, that much is true. The Bloodstrings and their A Part EP was, until this very moment, one of them. There have been innumerable releases over the pandemic period that have defied their surroundings with a rousing cheer…
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Venturas – Wermelskirchen, Germany Ah yes, the indomitable soaring of melodic Skate Punk! Enter Venturas and Your Weaker Self. It is true that many consider the genre dead and haven’t listened to anything since 1999 or 2005 at a push. I will say now, with no verbal faeces given, that…
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Ghosts Of Westbeach / Germany / United Kingdom / USA The internet, for all its infinite suck-holes of ridiculousness, has its uses. Ghosts Of Westbeach and ‘Dissolution’, the first being a transatlantic band and the latter their second single, are relevant here. To the latter more positive aspect of that…
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Heathcliff – Munich, Germany Heathcliff and Stay Posi, after a slight delay due to the year of “ugh what now” will soon release via SBÄM as the European staple continues in its quest to propagate the soundwaves with a steady supply of fast-Punk. Punk & Disorderly Records of Canada and Milestone Sounds…
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Utopia Now – Berlin, Germany After many moons away, in these new dark ages of no substance and woe, Utopia Now return with Jefferson’s Baby in a quest to decipher it all and ultimately find their true north. The Berlin melodic Punk project has seen something of a reemergence these…
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Elm Tree Circle – Iserlohn, Germany Situated somewhere between a contrastingly more mature Emo Rock, Pop-Punk and Alternative Rock, Elm Tree Circle and NO FOMO export their craft from Iserlohn, Germany, via Vancouver, Cologne and Dortmund on the back of the prolific Krod Records. Elm Tree Circle, it is safe to…
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Shellycoat – Hamburg, Germany The legacy of ’90s Punk is a lucrative well of sonics that outdoes itself. Shellycoat and Hide The Knives enter via the influence of the seminal period but in a manner open and free in its exploratory desires. The Hamburg band have been slogging it out since…
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Heathcliff – Munich, Germany After a 2019 that marked their debut blast of Skate Punk rooted, genre-crossing fast Punk, Heathcliff and ‘Stay Posi – Not Zombi’ enter 2020. A year that through its unprecedented upheaval, has only proved to be positively consistent through its sonic output. The alternative music scene…
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Ghosts Of Westbeach / Germany / United Kingdom / USA If there is anything that can be taken from the digital age as an unambiguous positive, it’s contemporary music. Ghosts Of Westbeach and ‘Someone Else’ denote to something that is emphatic proof of this exponentially positive connection. The days of…
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TWINS – Dresden, Germany Post-Hardcore is a stylistically lucrative offshoot of the greater Punk-Rock movement and that is where TWINS and their debut Soon stand prominently. The band, who are based in and around Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin, revive and infuse the base-genre with yet another direction. The four-piece infuse…
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